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Renewable energy : physics, engineering, environmental impacts, economics & planning /
This volume is a true shelf reference, providing a thorough overview of the entire renewable energy sphere, while still functioning as a go-to information source for professionals and students when they need answers about a specific technical issue. Crafted over the last 15 years into a problem-solv...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Burlington, MA :
Academic Press,
�2011.
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| Edición: | 4th ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Chapter 1. Perspectives
- 1.1 Current marketplace penetration
- 1.2 Brief history of energy use
- 1.3 Determinants for the future development in energy use
- 1.4 Topics for discussion and for mini-projects
- PART I: Energy Resources
- Chapter 2. Status, prospects and sustainability issues
- 2.1 Non-renewable energy resources
- 2.2 Renewable energy resource introduction
- Chapter 3. The origin of renewable energy flows
- 3.1 Solar radiation
- 3.2 Disposition of radiation at the Earth
- 3.3 Processes near the surface of the Earth
- 3.4 Non-radiative energy flows
- 3.5 Topics for discussion and for mini-projects
- Chapter 4. Modelling renewable energy flows
- 4.1 Circulation modelling
- 4.2 Climate: definition and modelling
- 4.3 Climate: interference and change
- 4.4 Summary of energy and related matter cycles
- 4.5 Topics for discussion and for mini-projects
- Chapter 5. Individual renewable energy resources
- 5.1 Direct solar energy
- 5.2 Wind flows
- 5.3 Water flows and reservoirs, waves and tides
- 5.4 Heat flows and reservoirs
- 5.5 Biological conversion and stores
- 5.6 Topics for discussion and for mini-projects
- PART II: Technologies for converting and handling renewable energy
- Chapter 6. General principles
- 6.1 Principles of energy conversion
- 6.2 Thermodynamical engine cycles
- 6.3 Topics for discussion and for mini-projects
- Chapter 7. Heat energy conversion processes
- 7.1 Direct thermoelectric conversion
- 7.2. Engine conversion of solar energy
- 7.3 Heat pumps
- 7.4 Geothermal energy conversion
- 7.5 Ocean-thermal conversion
- 7.6 Topics for discussion and for mini-projects
- Chapter 8. Mechanical energy conversion processes
- 8.1 Basic description of flow-driven converters
- 8.2 Propeller-type converters
- 8.3. Cross-wind and other alternative converter concepts
- 8.4 Hydro and tidal energy conversion
- 8.5 Magneto hydrodynamic converters
- 8.6 Wave energy converters
- 8.7 Topics for discussion and for mini-projects
- Chapter 9. Solar radiation conversion processes
- 9.1 Photovoltaic conversion
- 9.2 Photo-electrochemical conversion
- 9.3 Solar thermal conversion
- 9.4 Solar thermal electricity generators
- 9.5 Solar cooling and other applications
- 9.6 Topics for discussion and for mini-projects
- Chapter 10. Electrochemical energy conversion processes
- 10.1 Fuel cell principles
- 10.2 Specific types of fuel cells
- 10.3 Other electrochemical energy conversion
- 10.4 Topics for discussion and for mini-projects
- Chapter 11. Bioenergy conversion processes
- 11.1 Combustion
- 11.2 Biological conversion into gaseous fuels
- 11.3 Biological conversion into liquid fuels
- 11.4 Thermochemical conversion to gaseous and other fuels
- 11.5 Topics for discussion and for mini-projects
- Chapter 12. Energy Transmission
- 12.1 Heat transmission
- 12.2 Power transmission
- 12.3 Fuel transmission
- 12.4 Topics for discussion and for mini-projects
- Chapter 13. Energy storage technologies
- 13.1 Heat capacity storage
- 13.2 Latent heat and chemical transformation storage
- 13.3 Pumped hydro storage
- 13.4 Flywheels
- 13.5 Hydrogen and other compressed gas storage
- 13.6 Battery storage
- 13.7 Additional storage forms
- 13.8 Topics for discussion and for mini-projects
- PART III: Planning and socio-economic issues
- Chapter 14. Energy system planning
- 14.1 The methodologies of energy planning
- 14.2 Demand scenario construction
- 14.3 Overall system scenarios
- 14.4 Consistency simulation and implementation studies
- 14.5 Local systems
- 14.6 Regional systems
- 14.7 Global systems
- 14.8 Topics for discussion and for mini-projects
- Chapter 15. Socio-economic assessment
- 15.1 Social and economic framework
- 15.2 Scale of analysis
- 15.3 Life-cycle approach
- 15.4 Assessment issues
- 15.5 Communication and policy dimensions
- 15.6 Topics for discussion and for mini-projects
- Chapter 16. Integrated approaches
- 16.1 Greenhouse warming mitigation
- 16.2 Greenhouse warming adaptation
- 16.3 Ecological sustainability
- 16.4 Winding up
- References
- Index.